Session 10: Population and Population Change (Session 2)

Session Description

In this lab session, you will continue working on the Population lab notebook. We’ll start with independent work time, and then reconvene for the final 15 minutes of class to debrief.

Before Class

Natalie P. Voorhees Center. (2014). The Socioeconomic Change of Chicago’s Community Areas (1970-2010)

Slides

Other Resources

• The basic functions and use of the tidycensus package, including ways to download whole tables, specific variables, and options for shaping how data is downloaded.
• The use of several elements from the stringr package that help us to search, find, and replace string values
• case_when() To conditionally change values in character vectors
• rename() and select() to rename columns
• bind_rows() and bind_columns() to bind together rows or columns
• The use of arrange() to sort data
• More advanced features of the select() command, including renaming variables